Tom Wells
Updated: 16 Dec 2020, 22:55
AN IRA terrorist was yesterday told to pay £715,000 for the Hyde Park bombing.
John Downey, 68, was found to have been an “active participant” in the 1982 atrocity.
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John Downey has been ordered to pay £715,000 to the families of the Hyde Park bombing s victimsCredit: PA:Press Association
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The Hyde Park bomb, hidden in a blue Morris Marina, exploded as a Household Cavalry troop headed to a Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace on July 20, 1982Credit: PA:Press Association
And yesterday London’s High Court ruled he should compensate relatives of L/Cpl Jeffrey Young, 19, one of four British soldiers who died.
By Press Association 2021
IRA Hyde Park bombing
An award of “substantial damages” to “mark society’s condemnation” of the Hyde Park bombing can only be made if either Parliament or the Supreme Court allows it, a High Court judge has ruled.
Mr Justice Martin Spencer was asked at a hearing earlier this month to award “exemplary damages” because relatives of four British soldiers killed in the atrocity have been denied some “measure of justice, and thereby closure” with no-one ever been prosecuted, convicted and punished.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the judge said awarding such damages would require an extension of the law which would be “for either Parliament or the higher courts, and probably the Supreme Court”.
By Press Association 2021
IRA Hyde Park bombing
An award of “substantial damages” to “mark society’s condemnation” of the Hyde Park bombing can only be made if either Parliament or the Supreme Court allows it, a High Court judge has ruled.
Mr Justice Martin Spencer was asked at a hearing earlier this month to award “exemplary damages” because relatives of four British soldiers killed in the atrocity have been denied some “measure of justice, and thereby closure” with no-one ever been prosecuted, convicted and punished.
In a ruling on Wednesday, the judge said awarding such damages would require an extension of the law which would be “for either Parliament or the higher courts, and probably the Supreme Court”.
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image captionFour Household Cavalry soldiers died in the IRA s Hyde Park bomb attack as they rode to the Changing of Guard ceremony in Whitehall
The family of one of the four soldiers killed in the Hyde Park bombing in July 1982 has been awarded £715,000 in damages.
The ruling followed a civil case brought against John Downey, one of those involved in the IRA attack.
Four members of the Household Cavalry died in the blast in London.
Last year, a High Court judge ruled that John Downey was an active participant in the bombing.
On Wednesday, the court ruled that an award of substantial damages to mark society s condemnation of the bombing can only be made if either parliament or the supreme court allowed it.